Climate Change on Trial – Book Talk by César Rodríguez-Garavito

Please join us for a panel discussion on Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito’s book Climate Change on Trial: Mobilizing Human Rights Litigation to Accelerate Climate Action(Cambridge University Press, 2025).

Drawing on an original database of rights-based climate change lawsuits worldwide, as well as interviews with leading actors and participant observation in the field, the book explains the rise and global diffusion of rights-based climate litigation. It brings together insights from global governance, international law, climate policy, human rights, and legal mobilisation theory to offer a socio-legal account of the actors, strategies, and norms that have emerged at the intersection of human rights and climate governance.

Venue: Moot Court Room, 7th Floor CKK Building, LSE

Time: 2.00- 3.15pm

Speaker: César Rodríguez-Garavito, Professor of Law; Chair, Center for Human Rights & Global Justice; Director, The Earth Rights Research and Action (TERRA) Program; Director, More-than-Human Life (MOTH) Program, at NYU School of Law

Chair: Dr Siva Thambisetty, Associate Professor of Law, LSE Law School

Panellists: Joana Setzer, Associate Professor, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Eoin Jackson, PhD Candidate LSE Law School and Vesselina Newman, Lead on Fundamental Rights, ClientEarth

Sponsors: LSE Law School, The Global School of Sustainability, and the Grantham Research Institute